Fixes update

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Fixes update

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Fixes update

Apologies for the delay on releasing fixes, but my schedule has been completely full as of late.

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Fix update

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Fixes update and removal of crypto currency miner

While it has been a very interesting few months with CoinHive's crypto currency solution for an alternative donation method, it has become clear that it is no longer worth keeping it. Too many users have been abused by tools like these which lead to carpet bombing of blocks, ranging from the smallest anti-malware services, anti-virus up to enterprise level blockades, which made it very hard - some times impossible - for users to contribute using this method willingly due to their protection software.

As a user that actually prefers to use this when services and websites offer it - in a friendly matter - it makes me sad that such a great alternative has been killed so soon, but by no means I disagree with all the justifications for what happen, users come first when they are being targeted the way they were with these tools.

I don't know what will be the next alternative that I might explore since the ones I've researched before were unacceptable to me:

• Ads: I hate ads, I don't trust them unless I were to be the one serving them directly and I doubt any store would accept an extension like this running ads
• Telemetry: Although it would be great to understand which features users use the least so that I could drop them and focus on new ones, selling telemetry is futile. Any service interested in acquiring telemetry always demands their own source code running on the client to acquire that information directly and that way I would be unable to let them register only anonymous information, like blocked videos instead of the user's username and other private information.
• Subscription: Seriously, how would this even work in the context of an extension like this. What features could I make payable that would be worth the headache and I don't see this working very well on AMO or Chrome for that matter, we have SPOI Options - aka former YouTube Options - as an example of how people react to such a change. Although in their case it was a full paywall, not just for a few features

Which leads me to what we have now; Patreon and standard PayPal donations. I don't mind this and I will keep these donation channels open and they have been helping out more than with the previous extension, so until it becomes necessary, for the time being I will not be procuring any more alternatives to generate income.

With that said, thank you to everyone that has been helping with donations and feedback, it has not been easy but I have not given up.

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Fixes update

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Fixes update and possible feature removal

With the arrival of YouTube's own implementation of the always visible player, Iridium's version becomes redundant. For this reason the removal of this feature or made as an alternative is being considered and discussed in #412

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Fixes update

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Fixes update

My apologies for the delay on fixing the bugs this past week, there was no spare time that I could find until today.

Starting today I will be experimenting with the GitHub project tabs for development and bug fixing tracking. If users wish to know the current state of a bug or feature development they can follow it here:

• Feature development https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/projects/1
• Bug fixes https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/projects/2

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